DOVECOT
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 4
Sitting and Looking
Model for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre, Lanarkshire
Presented by IC:Innovative Craft and Dovecot Studios and curated by furniture designers, this show, newly commissioned for the Dovecot building as part of a series exploring the relationship between making and curating, brings together furniture design, fine art photography, ceramics, jewellery and painting.
As the curators explain: “There is often a tendency to separate creative thinking into different categories: fine art, design and craft. We believe that the common threads that link these worlds are more interesting than the geography which separates them.”
“The urge to make things that communicate lies at the heart of what it means to be human. All our exhibitors are artists who think with their hands as well as their heads. These are people whose work inspires us, and we want to share it.”
Featured exhibitors are Gordon Baldwin, El Ultimo Grito, Thomas Heatherwick, Nel Linssen, Vico Magistretti, Garry Fabian Miller, David Poston, Rupert Spira and JPLW.
Adam Paxon, Walking brooch 1
Dovecot Art & Making: A New Collection
Collaboration with different artists underpins the work of the Dovecot Studios. This new exhibition celebrates three creative relationships with important Scottish painters William Crozier, Barbara Rae RA, RSA, CBE and the late William Scott.
Major recent tapestries will be on show alongside selected works on paper by each artist, highlighting the quality and range of the studios’ work. Thanks are due to the artists and the William Scott Foundation for their contribution to this show. £5/£4 conc. 20% of all ticket sales will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Society in memory of William Scott.
MATTER 5: Adam Paxon
Another new IC/Dovecot commission from the maker/curator series, this exhibition sees jewellery artist Adam Paxon present his own work alongside film and photography documenting his curatorial journey with four other makers: Drummond Masterton, Charlotte De Syllas, Lina Peterson and David Poston.
Intimate Space: Material Lives
This new exhibition celebrates the story and artistic vision of the Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre buildings by bringing together architectural models, photographs and text in the space adjacent to the main Weaving Floor.
The show will illustrate how the use of colour, texture, domestic and intimate spaces, orchestrated by architects as varied as Richard Murphy, Frank Gehry and Richard Rogers, has created a model of international significance in the field of architecture and healthcare. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a new book on Maggie’s, The Architecture of Hope. www.maggiecentres.org
Dovecot
10 Infirmary St.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
0131 550 3660
Tu-Sa 10.30a-5.30p, free excl. first 1st Tues of the month 10.30a-12.30p, when admission is £3/£2 conc.,
www.dovecotstudios.com
